The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) recently imposed a $10 million fine on LPL Financial LLC, the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States. FINRA sanctioned LPL Financial as a consequence of the company’s numerous supervisory failures. The underlying supervisory deficiencies accompanied the sale of non-traditional ETF variable annuities, non-traded REITs, and other complex products.…

A certified Urban Main Street City, Longview was designated a “Certified Retirement Community” and one of the “Top 100 Best Cities for Young People” in the same year.  Its economy is reportedly booming—in fact, the only things growing as fast as Longview’s industries (like the East Texas oil field) are its shopping centers.  However, the…

While Longview isn’t purely thought of as an oil town anymore, the construction of the oil pipeline in 1942 was an integral component of its growth as a city.  The Big Inch pipeline was the longest petroleum pipeline built at the time of its construction; it transported 261 million barrels of crude oil to the…

This Thursday found justice when a jury in the 168th District Court of Texas finally reached a verdict on an 18-wheeler crash that occurred on August 2010 in Mitchell County. The semi-rig caught fire killing two men when it smashed into a concrete pillar and embankment on IH 20. The wife and family of the…

No place with Safe Roads? If you come to almost any place on Earth (or, more locally, to almost any place here in East Texas), people would probably tell you a lot about the fact that roads have become more dangerous in the past decade or even in the past few years. The number of…